FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, DECEMBER 2006
Copyright © 1973, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1996, 1999 by Naguib Mahfouz
English translation copyright © 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005 by Raymond Stock
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by The American University in Cairo Press, Cairo and New York, in 2005.
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
“The Disturbing Occurrences” appeared in Harper’s Magazine, August 2005. “Room No. 12” appeared in Zoetrope: All-Story magazine, Fall 2005. “The Haunted Wood” appeared in Bookforum, December/January 2004/5. “The Rose Garden” appeared in nest: a quarterly of interiors in Winter 1999/2000. “The Reception Hall” appeared in Egypt Today, December 1996. “A Warning from Afar” appeared in Bookforum, December/January 2004/5.
The Cataloging-in-Publication Data for The Seventh Heaven is on file at the Library of Congress.
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